Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Did you know the Twinkie turns 75 years old this month? (And you could probably eat the first one ever made if it was still around - HA!) I figured people stopped eating them after the age of, say, 12, (and if you look at the Twinkies website, it's clearly marketed toward kids) but according to this Washington Post article, that's not quite the case.

Americans spent $47 million on Twinkies over the past year. Hostess made 500 million of the resilient yellow, cream-filled sponge cakes. In Chicago, you can have Twinkie Tiramisu at Kitsch'N. Or a deep-fried Twinkie (yeesh!) at Swank Frank.

By the way, Hostess officially says the Twinkie has a 25-day shelf life.

If you're up for some nostalgia, here's the 10-year-old "T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project," a set of experiments which dropped Twinkies from buildings, set them on fire, left them in water, etc.

But seriously, when's the last time you ate a Twinkie? When's the last time you even considered it?